Pryor Glacier () is a glacier flowing northeastward, to the north of

Mount Shields The Usarp Mountains are a major Antarctic mountain range, lying west of the Rennick Glacier and trending north to south for about . The feature is bounded to the north by Pryor Glacier and the Wilson Hills. These mountains were discovered and ...

and

Yermak Point Yermak Point () is a coastal point in the west part of Rennick Bay, west-northwest of Znamenskiy Island, Antarctica. It was named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1958) after the Soviet icebreaker An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or b ...

, into Rennick Bay. The feature is about 30 nautical miles (60 km) long and forms a physical separation between

Wilson Hills Wilson Hills () is a group of scattered hills, nunataks and ridges that extend NW-SE for about between Matusevich Glacier and Pryor Glacier in Antarctica. They were discovered by Lieutenant Harry Pennell, Royal Navy, on the Terra Nova Expedition ...

and Usarp Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1960–62. Named by

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

(US-ACAN) for Madison E. Pryor, scientific leader at

McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Unit ...

(1959) and U.S. Exchange Scientist at the Soviet

Mirny Station The Mirny Station (russian: Мирный, literally ''Peaceful'') is a Russian (formerly Soviet) first Antarctic science station located in Queen Mary Land, Antarctica, on the Antarctic coast of the Davis Sea. The station is managed by the Ar ...

(1962).

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